Mayweather stops McGregor in 10th round
Las Vegas • Floyd Mayweather Jr. figured out a 50th opponent, letting Conor McGregor have the early rounds before stalking him late and leaving the mixed martial artist defenseless and exhausted on the...
View ArticleCommentary: Should you be forced to subsidize your neighbor’s solar panels?
Should Utahns who don’t want or cannot afford to install solar panels on their home be forced to pay for those who can? That’s the crux of the current net-metering debate in our state.Net metering...
View ArticleSix words Mormons dread hearing: The bishop wants to see you
Years ago, I received a call from the executive secretary of my Mormon ward looking to schedule a meeting between the bishop and me.I was instantly on my guard and refused. The secretary reassured me...
View ArticleDenver Snuffer’s offshoot is drawing away Mormons with the mantra: God can...
Sandy • Don’t call Denver Snuffer Jr. a prophet and don’t view his Remnant movement as a church.Of course, it was the Sandy lawyer’s account about a face-to-face meeting with Jesus that branded him a...
View ArticleVatican No. 2: Anti-Pope Francis jihadist attack threat is worrying
Rome • Pope Francis’ top aide says a pro-Islamic State group video that targets the pope is worrying but notes Vatican security is already at a high level.Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin,...
View ArticleReligious leaders plan rally in Washington as a moral rebuke to Trump’s...
The Rev. Al Sharpton organized more than 1,000 religious leaders from multiple faiths to rally Monday in Washington, D.C., saying he hopes to show that opposition to President Donald Trump is not...
View ArticleIraq’s Sunnis wrestle with militants’ religious legacy; some find positives...
Mosul, Iraq • Even as the Islamic State group’s rule is being torn down in Iraq, the seeds are there for it — or a successor extremist group — to rise again one day.It’s a disquieting fact: There are...
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Leonard Pitts: The day Marcellus Williams didn’t die
Last week, on the day he was scheduled to die, Marcellus Williams didn’t.Just hours before he was to be strapped down and pumped full of poison, Williams, the convicted killer of Felicia “Lisha” Gayle,...
View ArticleCommentary: If hospitals improve patient care, they’ll cut costs, too
Hospital readmissions remain a costly factor in our health care system. In an attempt to reduce health care costs, for the past several years the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has...
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Despite Honor Code concerns, BYU continues to host the Army and Air Force...
They appeared to be on the move as recently as last winter, but it seems the ROTC programs at Brigham Young University aren’t going anywhere. “We have made zero plans at this point,” Maj. John Young,...
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Utah Symphony hits the road for 1,200 miles of music
The Utah Symphony is hitting the road again and bringing several friends along.Three years after playing at the state’s five national parks on the Mighty 5 tour, the orchestra and music director...
View ArticleLetter: White supremacism is a tool of con artists, not a heritage to be...
I cannot believe the topsy-turvy, self-justifying, racist reasoning expressed by Ayla Stewart, but thank her for expressing her deliberately inverted, poisonous ideology so clearly:Racism against...
View ArticleCommentary: Operation Rio Grande shows that Utah is proficient at...
My sister is in jail for the 10th time in the past 24 months for drugs, paraphernalia, false ID, and retail theft. Her life is a vicious cycle of addiction and incarceration. She was last arrested...
View ArticleLetter: Trump’s ignorance puts us in great peril
What will it take to shut him up? Duct tape over the mouth and tie the tiny hands behind his back? A lobotomy?Donald Trump’s appallingly blissful ignorance has not only put us in great peril, but has...
View ArticleFamily of man who died after 2 days in Uintah County jail sues, says he...
A man who died in the Uintah County jail didn’t receive adequate medical attention because of the policies the county had in place at the time, according to a lawsuit filed by the deceased man’s...
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‘A landmark event’: Hurricane Harvey creates catastrophic flooding, leaves 5...
The worst fears of flooding are starting to be realized with Harvey as it unloads some of the most extreme rainfall Houston and other parts of Southeast Texas has ever witnessed. And much more rain is...
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Salt Lake theater company finds powerful ritual in Eugene O'Neill tragedy on...
“They’s no peace in houses,” says Ephraim Cabot, the rough-hewn, hard-eyed religious patriarch at the center of Eugene O’Neill’s 1924 play “Desire Under the Elms.” “They’s no rest livin’ with...
View ArticleConor's choices: Defend UFC belt, box again, or Diaz III?
Las Vegas • Conor McGregor was exhausted and hurt by the 10th round, his audacious venture undone by every logical problem with a mixed martial artist entering a professional boxing ring for the first...
View ArticleRSL demonstrates flexibility in second half of Rocky Mountain Cup
Real Salt Lake left back Danilo Acosta pushed up to join the attack, but his pass meant for Joao Plata went to Rapids defender Marlon Hairston’s feet instead. Hairston turned, and Acosta took him out...
View ArticlePac-12 football: USC has come a long way since that loss to Utes
USC’s most recent defeat occurred so long ago that Troy Williams was Utah’s star quarterback at the time.The greatest moment of Williams’ Ute career and Sam Darnold’s first start as USC’s quarterback...
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